today's volunteering report
fairly dull day as work goes--I filled up the sinks to wash dishes & put myself down on the board to clean the ward, but one of the other almost-senior volunteers was showing two of the most-junior volunteers how to clean it instead, so I let them have at. instead I did the cleaning pad (not hard, just involves spraying water around and getting wet outside, brrr), collected trash, & did a couple of other odd chores.
drug culture (pot smoking) question
on a scale of 1 (horribly offended) to 10 (ridiculously pleased), and assuming you had mostly been smoking pipes/joints, how would you feel if your upstairs neighbor bought you vape pens and begged you to use them after 10 pm so they could open their window at night? :|
woooo had good time and good food with @Jssra and came home and fed cats and had more food and am now sleeeeeepy. but can't go sleep yet, need to stay up to feed cats again in an hour. o____o then sleep and tomorrow volunteering!
(seriously, check out this portrait of the General) https://elekk.xyz/media/aQV49ltycTOrKjIBL58
Bonus Did You Know?: Alexandre Dumas was a black man! His father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was a hero of the French Revolution and, until 1975, shared the title of highest-ranked military officer of sub-Saharan descent in the Western world, as general-in-chief of the Army of the Alps.
Pharmacology, hrt, steroids
Those taking steroid hormones be it HRT or anti-inflammatory therapy should make sure to intake more sulfur in their diet, sulfate is required to produce Adenosyl-sulfate diphosphate which is used for elimination of many steroids through sulfation, but low sulfur means less taurine, glutathione, and sulfated proteins essentially for the gel structure near cells (eg. Chondroitin-sulfate) so not getting enough sulfur can fuck your body up.
If you've watched YouTube videos in the last couple days, you may have noticed the phrase "ad blitz" in the upper-left hand corner of your screen.
Ad blitz is a marketing term. It entered the English lexicon by the WWII German tactic of 'Blitzkrieg' or 'lightning war' in which an enemy would be met with a sudden and overwhelming force.
Advertisers literally think they are attacking you. They think of you as an enemy, as a military target.
Act in kind.
** Hugo nominations are now open. Here is my eligibility post: https://t.co/CwBOI0whrj and as usual, "fan writer" is probably the best category for what I do. **
I'm pretty sure she (or another hawk) has been hanging around quite a bit in the last week or so, too--I've caught glimpses of hawks several times, and heard them, and heard the crows mobbing them; they could all be the same hawk, and could all be her. I'm probably being overly optimistic, but--fingers crossed! :D
oooh, no, I'm completely wrong here--*female* red-tail hawks are up to 25% larger than males, and can be larger than crows! so that was almost certainly a female, possibly scouting for nesting territory! :D that would be *so awesome* eeeeee
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
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